[Trac #941] hostname localhost.localdomain

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#941: hostname localhost.localdomain
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 Reporter:  CarlFK  |       Owner:  blizzard 
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  low     |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro  |    Keywords:           
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 I noticed in the boot messages: "Setting hostname localhost.localdomain:"

 Are they going to get unique hostnames?

 cjb: doesn't DHCP set the hostname, though?
 CarlFK: it can, but from what I have seen dhcp doesn't always happen
 CarlFK: and sending a hostname isn't guaranteed

 cjb: if dhcp doesn't happen, we're not on a network and don't care that we
 don't have a unique hostname.

 follow up: I do not belive you can rely on a dhcp server to supply a host-
 name.  The man page implies that it is optional:

 man dhcp-options:
 """    It is not necessary to exhaustively specify all DHCP options
  - only those options which are needed by clients must be specified.

        option host-name string;

           This  option  specifies  the  name of the client.  The name may
 or may not be qualified
           with the local domain name (it is preferable to use the domain-
 name option  to  specify
           the  domain  name).   See RFC 1035 for character set
 restrictions.  This option is only
           honored by dhclient-script(8) if the hostname for the client
 machine is not set.
 """ http://www.phpman.info/index.php/man/dhcp-options

 I also read though
 http://rfc.net/rfc2132.html "DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions"
 I did not find antying stating that the server MUST supply a host-name.

 OTOH, it may be just fine to have them all named localhost.

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